1000 popular Baby Boy Names of the last three years, by popularity

Data was compiled from the Social Security Administration statistics for the years 2003, 2004 and 2005.  Names are restricted to cases where the year of birth, sex, State of birth (50 states and District of Columbia) are on record, and where the given name is at least 2 characters long.   All data are from a 100% sample of records on Social Security card applications as of the end of February 2006.  Please note that name data are not edited.  For example, sex associated with a name may be incorrect.  Entries such as 'Unknown' and 'Baby' are not removed from the lists.  Different spellings of similar names are not combined.